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David Renck, director of Chernobyl and a bunch of other things.

Original DAW cover with tower and birds on lower left. Digital cover with tower and tentacles on lower right. Extra tentacles fill the space between them. It's not a squid. It's never a squid. Its dark eyes locked on his face. It had never done that before. It had always looked past him. He could only remember seeing it focus on the animals he'd sent it to kill for food on the way. It had broken rabbits' necks with unbelievable delicacy given the relative sizes. "Protect you," it said. "Horse, no." "If I order you to protect the horses?" "Yes." But it didn't seem happy about it. As far as he could tell. "No food," it added. "No horse food." Arianna spread her hands. He sighed. "Looks like we're leaving the horses."

Today's word is UNBELIEVABLE. Today's #Bookqw from INTO THE BROKEN LANDS, a created world fantasy with two timelines, six POV characters and 163,000 words -- where unbelievable appears only once. My characters believe what they see.

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reading conservative literature is incredible because you get writing like this

when i save "hannah montana implies the existence of 49 other hannahs" as a draft, what good does that do except delay your eventual suffering?

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities:

Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down

Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged

Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

Bro like 20% of republicans are probably saner than you at this point

This is a wonderful piece of reportage and data-illustration by @jacobbogage.bsky.social in battered WaPo.

-See @timothynoah.bsky.social's ongoing work on this theme, eg newrepublic.com/article/2042...

-Seeing our shrunken, barely-there print Sunday WaPo was poignant, artifact from "before."

The Mommy Party is always responsible for cleaning up the Daddy Party's mess. Failure to do so because Daddy beat her too hard to remain upright is Mommy's fault for being too shrill and annoying. This too is gender.

this may be the single most insufferable thing about the radical centrist caucus - not just extending good faith to obviously bad faith people but demanding everyone else do the same and chiding them when they don’t

Too less donations today🥺let’s change it🤞

this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth

more addressing the other site than anything I've seen here, but Zohran never once promised to spearhead a class-struggle mayoralty or be absolute in his anti-zionism and if the DSA left was going to condition their support on such they should have said so instead of claiming his victory as theirs

“Thiel’s “vibe shift” required less work than what Epstein was up to, largely because it was something that culture reporters were willing — eager, even — to cover.” *nodding vigorously*

Not stuck, but not where it needs to be either… 🙁
After months, the vehicles are still missing 🚗🚗

Keep it moving ⚡🔥

Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods

“It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.”

3/3

2/3

A little rusty (1/3)

What the Crackdown Has Done to Minneapolis Children

I’m outraged. Our kids are living in terror under this unjust federal occupation. No child should endure the cruelty being inflicted at the hands of the Trump regime.

‼️IT'S RAFFLE TIME‼️(details from tweet 4/9)

@sbk1301.bsky.social and I will this time help Kraken 1654 to fight the electricity outages by providing them 4 generators!

Goal🎯: 249 996₴ (~5 792$)

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send.monobank.ua/jar/5o8MV1Zwca

🧵1/9

#DonateToUkraine
#NAFO #FNDRUA

It's to make cushbomb and the like really really really really really really REALLY angry.

A close view of the face of a perched moth (© Laurent Hesemans / CUPOTY)

A dark-colored shrimp clings to a feathery bit of sea life. (© Luis Arpa / CUPOTY)

A small bird flies close to the surface of a pond as a frog leaps into the air ahead of it. (© Bence Máté / CUPOTY)

A well-camouflaged spider lies flat against a tree, with lichen-like 'hairs' on its legs and body. (© Raghuram Annadana / CUPOTY)

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You sent 70,00 $ USD to Сергій Петрик

From me.

Fundraising has almost stopped😭

There is no time to wait... while we are waiting for help, the guys are having a hard time. The guys are taking out a loan to order the drone now. It will be ready in about 14 days.

‼️During this time, we need to raise the remaining funds, namely $2,039.35‼️

🔥URGENT and CRITICAL🔥
The visibility is utterly terrible. I’m calling on EVERYONE who sees this to at least retweet and, if you can, donate!

It is absolutely critical to get these young guys the drones they need to survive!

Oh my God.

We’re almost there.
Just €486 left to close the February fundraiser for Defcon Tribe, working on the Black Sea with GUR.

🎯 Goal: €4,200
💰 Collected: €3,714

Donate:
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Also, for the record, this isn't a left-liberal-center thing. Ultimately if you're doing the work it doesn't matter AT ALL what your politics are. There are many good contributors from all over the spectrum. The problem is that these networks CANNOT work well if they're closed, vetted affairs.

The Marxist-Leninist vanguard saw a mass movement of spontaneous resistance to capital and thought "no, no, this is all wrong, we can do this better" many such cases